[The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of a Crime CHAPTER VIII 15/23
Paulin Durrieu resisted violence by force, it needed three men to drag him from his bench.
Monet was thrown down upon the benches of the Commissaries.
They seized Adelsward by the throat, and thrust him outside the Hall.
Richardet, a feeble man, was thrown down and brutally treated. Some were pricked with the points of the bayonets; nearly all had their clothes torn. The commander shouted to the soldiers, "Rake them out." It was thus that sixty Representatives of the People were taken by the collar by the _coup d'etat_, and driven from their seats.
The manner in which the deed was executed completed the treason.
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